I'm trying to concatenate a half dozen fields from an sql statement into a string, then loading the string in a select list. I can't seem to find a way to keep them 'lined up' - so if, for instance, I concatenate a name field and address field, I want the first letter of the first names to line up, and the first letter of the addresses to line up in my list box. I've been trying str_pad(), but can't get that to work for some reason - If I pad with a character, I get the characters in the result, but if I pad with blanks, I lose the blanks. Don't get it.
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I'm not sure what you been by concatenating in a select list (I'm assuming you mean a HTML select box)
HTML ignores spaces. For output you can use the <pre></pre> tags and that will display the text just as you type it into the code, spaces and all.
From what it sounds like you're having a HTML issue, and its not related to PHP.
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We would have to see the actual code to be able to say for sure, but I think Dan got it right. HTML does not preserve white-spaces, such as spaces and newlines.
If you need to add a series of spaces into your HTML you have three options: - The easiest solution would be to use the entity. It represents a single space.
- Second, as Dan suggested, the <pre> tag preserves any white-spaces that occur within it.
- Or, if you use CSS, you can apply the "white-space: pre" style to the element containing your data. That would preserve the white-spaces, just like a <pre> tag would.
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